THE NEW YORKER cause he had been too cranky to eat regularly. He had money in the bank at the time and an uncashed check from Hollywood for the moving-picture rights to one of his old books. After he g t out of the hospital, he wrote to all the papel s and threatened to sue them, I and they said they were very sorry for their mistake. And then, as soon as he died, they brought it up again. They just couldn't resist that picture of the starving poet abandoned in an attic." \Ve had a couple of drinks, and then l'v1rs. :Masters drove me out to the Ed- wards mansion, which is in the north- west part of the city, now a region of railroad tracks and factories. .l\s in most American cities, in Springfield a genera- tion or so ago the fashionable people began moving out in all directions from · th center of town to build their big i new houses, and only a fraction of the area that was once smart has con- tinued to be. The neighborhood In which Benjamin Edwards lived is not a part of that fraction, but, to judge from the size of his home, he must, in his day, have been a great swell. lrs. Masters said that there was al- ready a fairly large house on the prop- erty when Edwards and his wife moved there, in 1843, and that the couple had built on an addition that was much larger than the original. The result astonished me. It is a huge, angular structure of brick painted gray ( sand brick, Mrs. Masters said, which had to be kept painted to preserve it), with four drawing rooms, whIch can be <....; thrown into a single one, in a straight line through the center of the house. I <....; had had no idea that anybody in down- state Illinois in the eighteen-forties lived so lavishly. Such a mansion would have surprised me less in nearby Missouri or Kentucky, where in those days there would have been household slaves to help maintain it. Successful attorney though Lincoln was, he never lived in Springfield on any such scale as his wife's brother-in-Iaw's brother, and I pitied him for having an establishment of this <....; kind in the family, to be held up to him as an example of what a husband might be expected to provide. "Rosewood, Dresden china, family portraits by Healy," Mrs. Masters said. (Healy was a portraitist celebrated in the Middle West, where he arrived in a dead heat with the original first fam- ilies.) "Quite a log cabin, isn't It?" She added that the members of the Art As- sociation had been at work for forty · years furnishing the place with appro- priate Early Victorian pieces, and that the downstairs part probably looked as It 43 For choose ilifft ANNO 1695 Flavor-rich velvet-smooth de Kuyper Cordials add a regal touch to enter- taining. Try delicious de Kuyper Apricot Liqueur or any of the other 11 varieties. Ask for de Kuyper, a name famous for 255 years. . . ä-tf M \it) .:." '" < "\ -=::. .(" :;/. < . '>, ' '<<I' --:" ........'" . . : , .>> " ,,-' 0)0 .... < , "-- <",.,. :. APRICOT ',: UR .. . !..-.' ? ,: tIJ . ,t nE KUYPER .:-"':::;: -:;; <<1I1'H - ,.-- OHC_ l!)OoOOO f:., PAR ' . + , ADISE 1. 1 Shake / cOCKTA Kuy/", oge/her 3/ Il ,..,er A p . /4 0 . oz. gin 3 rlco/li Z. de.. I , 0 d ' % O.l: QUeur 1 k (\( \h\\' \" \ \ n serve if} 0 :r::f}l?e íUic: - .......1 clf/oil l :: :\\\, Send for FREE RECIPE BOOK 9 ass. , of glamorous drinks and dishes 12 delicious cordials · 5 fruit flavored brandies DE KUYPER APRICOT LIQUEUR · MADE IN AMERICA · 60 PROOF . NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, DEPT N 60, BOX 12, WALL STREET STATION NEW YORK 5, N. Y.